Reviews

Politics, Art, and the Palme d’Or: Reflections on Cannes and Jafar Panahi’s Victory

awarding of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival to Jafar Panahi’s A Simple Accident has stirred both celebration and controversy

Sentimental Value, directed by the acclaimed Norwegian-Danish filmmaker Joachim Trier, dazzled audiences at the Cannes Film Festival

Militantropos had its World Premiere at Cannes as part of the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes) program

They return in Un Certain Regard with director Zuzana Kirchnerová’s film, Caravan, about a road trip a mother

In Woman and Child, Saeed Roustaee presents an unflinching and, at times, deeply unsettling portrait of a woman trapped in a structure

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident masterly turns the camera on his own side of politics, not a surprise move for a filmmaker

Premiering at Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done (Que ma volonté soit faite) tells the story of Naw

The main problem with Alpha is that it pretends to be about pain, illness, and mourning, but everything remains on the surface

He has now come to the festival with The Secret Agent, set in 1977 in Filho’s hometown of Recife in northeastern Brazil

The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson’s latest cinematic contraption, unfolds like an intricate toy delicate, ornate, and almost assembled

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